Binky Was Right Again. Still. More, #83434….

~ ITEM: FRIGGING BEER– ‘Thank you, Sean,’ Alexander said, according to a clip of the exchange that was first reported by Ben Doernberg. ‘Tell your boss I owe him another friggin’ beer,’ he added.

~ DOES IT GET ANY EASIER, being right so often? Yes. Except I so often wish I were proven wrong.

A little while back, when many of you had stopped visiting, I wrote about Mr. “Frigging Beer” Cyber Ubersturmfuhrer Interweb Generalissimo Keith Alexander. Now, I’ve been proven right that he’s not on the side of the hobbits and free people of the West.

But still, as I wrote then:

“In one sense, such cyber-schemery is also a grand illusion & joke on the powers that be– yet another misbegotten human attempt for certain powerful people to play God (over other people, and the future), trying to create a system so perfect that no-one will need to be good. Ain’t no such thing, There’s crime & sinners & saints & virtue in the strictest jailhouse.

The Lord God Almighty will (as always) laugh them to scorn– but the many questions remains.. how many laws will be broken, lives ruined, privacies invaded, governments become prison-guard states, and how much increased will be the sum total of human misery and degradation increased by the ever-deadly good intentions and unintended consequences of the mastery of technology over free peoples and the future? Nothing to see here: shrugs all ’round.. go back to your 400 channels and online puppies and pursuit of ever-staler pleasures.

At what price this notion of ‘security’? Too high, but the buying & paying for it is increasingly out of our hands.”

Shame on Mr. Alexander, on the NSA, on their political masters, and on the “The operation was a success, but the patient died” mentality that would trade human freedom and dignity for illusionary security.. while– in the U.S., the administration is pandering to the very same terrorists they are allegedly enslaving us via surveillance to protect us from.

Ri-i-i-ight. ~

Pray For Our Leaders

~ LOOK IN THOSE EYES, and behold the inward man.

Jesus– “The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is simple, your whole body will be bright; but if your eye is wicked, your whole body will be dark. If in reality the light the that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is!” St. Matthew 6:22, 23

Pray for this man. He is in a world of spiritual danger, could he but see it. He is not a monster: he is one of us. He seems to be doing a Seven Deadly Sins World Tour, and is both an object for pity and for righteous wrath, and a warning of what could happen to any of us, given a giving-in to temptation, an abuse of authority and responsibility; a deep habit of dishonesty and deception; and a revelling in power without remembering Who made him, Who would save him, and Who will judge him.

St. Paul– “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.” 1 Timothy 2:1-3

Mr. Obama has become an anti-Christ, whether or not he is The Anti-Christ™. Pray for him. ~

~ PRETTY MUCH the first time I remember having one of those intuitively conservative moments was when they started (under Canada’s Obama, Glorious Leader Pierre Trudeau) to abolish the old system of weights and measurements, in favour of the French metric system.

“What’s wrong with the old way?” my schoolboy self asked, at this intrusion into replacing common sense. After all, the old system dealt with realities.. this new one with abstractions. So a life of wasting time– trying to convert the new way into the old– way ensued.

Metric & Choppity-Chop

The French gave us white flags, the guillotine, and the metric system of 1791.. along with their “rationalized” days, weeks, and months, and goddess of reason, and civil terror as the French surrendered to themselves. And some other stuff, like Napoleon.

Of enduring usefulness, I prefer the utility of the guillotine to the older systems of deathing people. The metric system? Not so helpful, akshully.

A kilo? A damnable invention of the Frogs during their Head-Chopping of Frogs period. Sounds kinda fraudulent and inhuman to me. Follow my blindingly obvious logic here:

An inch? That first bit of your forefinger.

A foot? See end of your legs.. two of them.

An ell? The length of a man’s arm from the elbow to tip of middle finger, also known as a cubit.

An Yard? A full stride length.

I carry these measurements with me all the time: they are ancient, sensible human measurements hallowed and meaningful in life, farming, carpentry, construction, buying and selling, literature and common-place sayings.

Via Hilary Of Nasty

Behold, modern secular bioethics, in all its murderously insane glory:

“Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”

~ IF YOU’RE READING this and thinking, “wow, why would anyone want to stand around in a bathroom while texting?” then you are officially old; and “becoming The Crazy Lady is easier than you think. It’s a slippery slope, people” … (starkravingmadmommy.com)

~ WE MIGHT NOT KNOW what a shrift is anymore, but we know we don’t want to get a short one. From “12 old words that survived” … (ericandigest.org)

~ POWER LINE BLOG– “I sometimes wonder what would happen to Hollywood if their political inclinations were actually put into practice. Not many people would be able to drive to the theater to take in their latest films. How would that work out for them?” … (powerlineblog.com)

~ WAR ON REALITY– Top White House Climate Change Adviser Vows Obama Will Crackdown On Global Warming Skepticism: “The Era Of Denial Is Over” … (weaselzippers)

~ WHERE WE ARE– “In demographic terms, more white Americans died in 2012 than were born. Never before—not during the Civil War bloodletting, not during the influenza epidemic after World War I, not during the Great Depression and birth dearth of the 1930s—has this happened. In ethnic terms, it means that Americans whose forebears came from Great Britain, Ireland and Germany, Southern and Eastern Europe—the European tribes of North America—have begun to die. The demographic winter of white America is at hand, even as it began years ago for the native-born of old Europe. Maybe we shouldn’t have contracepted and aborted our kids. Stupid Sixties” … (sergesblog.blog)

~ MUST-READ– “Death Can Be Silent – The Present State of Free Speech in the U.S., Europe and Beyond”– Speech given by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff to the Ahavath Torah Congregation, Boston, June 17, 2013 … (gatesofvienna.net)

~ ATHEISM IS ONLY interesting for so long as it can maintain some religious associations, after which it becomes a void. Woody Allen had the wit to stand his ground as a Jewish atheist, just as my atheist mother stands the cultural ground of Gaelic Calvinism … (davidwarrenonline)

~ CANUCKI BOOKS– “But if I am only for myself, what am I?” Canadian columnist Barbara Kay reflects on her upbringing and the issues that have made her a major controversialist. Acknowledgements – a Cultural Memoir and Other Essays consists of previously unpublished pieces as well as essays elaborating on her familiar themes — all thoughtful commentaries on the hot cultural topics of recent decades; see also: The Best of Barbara Kay, Vol. I: An accidental journalist’s politically incorrect opinions about feminism, multiculturalism and other paving stones to hell … (mercatornet.com)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS– The celebrity-obsessed dishonours list: One of the functions of the honours list is to make the nation feel good about itself. It’s not just that the individuals on the list are being honoured for their achievements. Its also that the nation as a whole feels uplifted by those awards and what they represent … (melaniephillips.com)

~ THE IDEA OF “30 embryos created for every live birth” is so hard to fathom as something that happens. There is a mighty corruption at work that can transform the natural desire to have a child to allow the sacrifice of 29 siblings for that one child … (curtjester)

~ PREACH IT! — “Contrary to prevailing “groupthink” messaging, you can love and respect your gay friends, relatives, and neighbors and strongly oppose redefining marriage. Moreover, you can marvel at the beauty of all children no matter how conceived and still be strongly opposed to any cultural change that will bolster an industry that treats human beings as commodities to be bought and sold” … (lifesitenews)

The Cathedral Of The Holy Wisdom..Now captive to militant Islam.. again?

~ FLIPPING THE BIRD TO THE WEST– Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque– again. Turkey is reclaiming its jihadi past, while Europe is simultaneously erasing its own Christian heritage … (pjmedia.com)

~ IN THE PROPHETIC Poet and the Spirit of the Age, Marion Montgomery is a prophetic critic calling his readers back to known but forgotten truths, namely that man still lives in Middle Earth … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ PEEK-A-BOO! On eve of G8 Summit in Ireland, stunning revelation from Ed Snowden that British spied on delegates at 2009 London G20 summit … (pundita.blog)

~ HOW DEMOCRACIES PERISH, Deathbed Edition– We must return to the Cold War to discover the roots of current media corruption … (americanthinker)

~ THE PRIMITIVE CRUELTY of Modern “Love”– “Saint Valentine’s Day at my school came and went. There was no dance. There was no concert. There was no ice cream social. There was no party for trading little gifts. There was no showing of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon or Marty or Goodbye, Mr. Chips or Casablanca. There were no foolish and innocent flirtations on the way to class” … (crisismagazine)

~ YOU MUST ADMIRE leftist tyrants, they know how to change the subject … (creativeminorityreport)

~ CHRIS NAVIN– “The Rushdie affair gave notice not just of a new Islam but also of a new left. Radicals slowly lost faith in secular universalism and began talking instead about multiculturalism and group rights. They became disenchanted with Enlightenment ideas of rationalism and humanism, and many began to decry the Enlightenment as a ‘Eurocentric’ project.” … (chrisnavin.com)

~ EURO DEATH-MONGERS– Euthanasia activists are mounting a two-front pro-suicide offensive. First are the legalizers, those who seek to open the door to doctors (or others) legally assisting suicide/administering euthanasia for some–the terminally ill, seriously disabled, chronically ill, and/or mentally ill. They often pretend that suicide isn’t suicide, by calling it “aid in dying.” … (nationalreview)

~ A PHILADELPHIA tale: a radical imam, a mosque, Barack Obama, and taxpayer dollars: “Presidential candidate Barack Obama was not only well aware of this but also took full advantage of these factors in 2008 to reach out to the Muslim community–and then rewarded Gamble’s operation with your tax dollars in 2010. Any questions?”; A Radical Imam’s Infiltration of Philadelphia … (hoocoodanode, juicyecumenism)

~ ARBITRARY LAPTOP SEIZURES by US government highlight 9/11-era climate of fear. The treatment of dissidents is the true measure of how free a society is: consider today’s examples from the US … (guardian.co.uk)

~ THE U.S. FEDERAL government now has the ability and the “legal authority” to collect electronic data regarding the daily activities and associations of every innocent person in the civilized world … (americanthinker)

~ THE CHAPLAIN ALLIANCE for Religious Liberty, an organization of chaplain endorsers representing more than 2,000 current chaplains actively serving the armed forces, is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to firmly reject President Obama’s attempt to minimize the importance of religious conscience … (alliancealert.org)

~ PRESIDENT Obama repeated lines, his voice waivered, he looked confused, the crowd’s response was tepid, and he was clearly sweating through his clothes. It was among the worst public performances of his presidency … (theulstermanreport.com)

~ WATCH & SHARE: Both parties are dragging us into war in the Middle East … (glennbeck.com)

“It’s all about Obama appearing detached, unattached. It’s all about disguising what Obama’s real intentions are. With no prompter and no discipline, he might actually let it slip what his real plans are, and that would be devastating. The fact of the matter is that most liberals cannot be honest with you about what they really hope happens or what they want to happen or what they really intend to do.”

~ THE QUESTION HIT ME like a lightning bolt as I looked in the mirror upon awaking this morning. Am I a traitor to my country, to my fellow citizens of the United States of America? Have I abandoned all sound reason and logic and lost my moral compass? … (canadafreepress)

~ COMMENT OF THE WEEK by John Fleming– “Can anyone name even one constitutional purpose of American foreign policy that is being satisfied by an intervention into the Syrian pesthole?” … (americandigest.org)

~ OBAMA & SENSENBRENNER: two very different views of U.S. domestic spying program– “President Obama falsely claims Congress authorized all NSA surveillance. In fact, our law was designed to protect liberties.” … (pundita.blog)

~ THE STATE DEPARTMENT investigator who accused colleagues last week of using drugs, soliciting prostitutes, and having sex with minors says that Foggy Bottom is now engaged in an “intimidation” campaign to stop her … (jammiewf.com)

~ AMERICAN ALLIES: The Muslim Brotherhood Has Turned Cairo Into A Dystopia.. “Thugs often run the streets, crime rates have skyrocketed, and police feel they’re outgunned, faced with the flood of weapons filling Cairo’s streets” … (.theblaze.com)

~ LIKE FLAMING DEMONS, Wallachians rushed out of the night and into the Turkish camp, striking terror in an army of terrorists. Leading the charge was a gore-spattered chieftain— hewing and hacking a path to the central tents where the Sultan huddled … (crisismagazine)